Shiva(シヴァ, Shiva?) is a frequently recurring Ice-elementalsummon. A blue-skinned woman with clothing of the same color, her signature attack is Diamond Dust (sometimes called Gem Dust, and Transcendantale in the French version).

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Although enjoying regular appearances throughout the series, Shiva, like most of the popular summonable entities, has not been given a significant back story, being simply described as the "Ice Queen". She has a lover named Shivar and a daughter named Shivan in Final Fantasy XII: Revenant Wings. In Final Fantasy XIII, Shiva is embodied in a pair of sisters called Nix and Stiria. In Final Fantasy XV she is said to have loved Ifrit and appears as a flock of pixies as well as a human form.

Shiva has occasionally been shown as one of the more "friendly" summonable entities, only requiring being fought to gain her services in a few Final Fantasy games, and she usually does not display malicious intent when doing so.

Shiva is a willowy humanoid female with pale skin and long, blue hair so to invoke an image of ice and cold. Later summon sequences add arctic winds, freezing temperatures and large ice crystal formations. Shiva invariably wears only enough clothing to retain her modesty, along with boots and other minor aesthetic pieces. She carries no weapon in most appearances, and implements her Diamond Dust attack with arm gestures, a snap of the fingers, and/or force of will. Later games in the series allow Shiva to carry out physical attacks in the form of kicks and punches.

Shiva is Rydia's summon after she rejoins the group in the Underworld. She is also a boss in Rydia's trial in the Lunar Ruins in the Advance and Complete Collection releases. Shiva has a casting time of 4, costs 30 MP to summon, has a power of 120, and attacks all enemies for ice-elemental damage. In the 3D releases, the charge time to summon her is six seconds. In the Easy Type version, the casting time was reduced to 3.

Shiva returns as a Summon spell for the imposter Rydia and Rydia. Her signature attack, Diamond Dust, deals moderate Ice-elemental damage to all enemies at the cost of 30 MP.

Shiva is wielded by the Frostbeast, one of four Eidolon-holding bosses found within the Lower Section of the Tower of Babil B13. Once it's defeated, it leaves behind an orb of blue light. The imposter Rydia claims the light and regains the ability to summon Shiva. Shiva, along with the other reclaimed Eidolons, is later summoned by the imposter Rydia on B6 of the tower to battle against the party.

Shiva returns as one of the Eidolons being controlled by the Mysterious Girl. She is fought in Palom's chapter, and can later be faced in The Gathering. The first time is a scripted battle, but the second time the player fights Shiva until she stops attacking and the player must do the same if they want to recruit her, otherwise she will be killed. If the party stops fighting, Shiva will recognize Rydia and is acquired as a summon. She costs 30 MP.

The Summonerjob class can call Shiva. She can be found at the top of the tower at Castle Walse. This was the first time in the series Shiva appears as a boss. Along with her are three Ice Commanders who also must be defeated.

Shiva is a Level 2 summon who costs 10 MP to summon, dealing ice damage to all enemies.

If the player's Materia inventory is full during the scene Priscilla is supposed to give the Materia to Cloud and the party, she leaves the Shiva Materia in her room for the player to pick it up later.

Shiva is one of two initial Guardian Forces assigned to Squall at the start of the game, obtained by entering the tutorial section of his Study Panel. Shiva's attack, Diamond Dust, is an Ice-elemental attack that damages all enemies. Her compatibility items are Arctic Wind and North Wind, and her "opposite" Guardian Force is Ifrit whose summoning deducts compatibility with Shiva the most.

Shiva is an eidolon summoned by Dagger. Shiva is learned from equipping an Opal for 20 AP.

According to notes left on the Eidolon Wall at Madain Sari, the summoners discovered Shiva in the form of a small child. As years passed she grew into her more familiar adult appearance. When summoned she uses Diamond Dust, dealing ice damage to all opponents. Her spell power is equal to 36 plus the number of Opals in the party's inventory. Before Dagger has her eidolons extracted Shiva costs 96 MP to summon, but after being re-acquired she costs 24 MP. Dagger initially has Shiva but doesn't have enough MP to summon her without excessive level grinding.

There exists an early concept art of Shiva in a more childlike appearance. Shiva also appears as the queen card in the blackjack minigame.

Shiva is one of the six celestial Avatars who represents the ice element. The job class Summoner can unlock the "spell" Shiva upon completion of the quest "Trial By Ice". Alternatively, a brave low-level Summoner may go on the quest "Trial Size Trial By Ice" and defeat Shiva in a battle alone rather than in a group. She has the highest magic attack of the six celestial avatars, making her merited blood pact "Heavenly Strike" a popular choice. Shiva is also the name of one of the game's servers.

Shiva was the young ruler of a small kingdom situated in the south of Vana'diel. Despite her age, Shiva was a wise and competent ruler, loved by her people, except a small fraction of the nobility who were faithful to Shiva's uncle, the regent when she first came to the throne. Scheming with the neighboring countries, Shiva's uncle organized a coup, seized the throne and banished Shiva to the frozen Northlands, reluctant to further provoke the anger of the population by executing her outright.

The rulers with whom the uncle had allied decided to take over the country. In the chaos that followed a regiment of soldiers, led by general Aeomatra, headed to rescue their queen. They found her frozen solid in a block of ice. Unaccustomed to the harsh climate of the Northlands, they died refusing to leave their queen. Altana was moved by Shiva's plight and transformed her into the Celestial Avatar of Ice. Aeomatra is the name of the brightest, light blue star of the Shiva constellation.

Shiva is the rank 3 Water Ranged summon who costs 20 affinity points to summon. Her normal attack, Triple Slap, deals water damage to one foe with three successive hits. Her special, Diamond Dust, deals heavy water damage to all enemies in range, and inflicts Stop.

She is one of the unique water types in that she is really an ice-type. Therefore, she is weak to fire instead of thunder. There are two other, weaker Yarhi also named after Shiva, Shivan and Shivar, who are stated to be her child and lover respectively.

Snow Villiers' Eidolon is the Shiva Sisters, also referred to as the Twin Sisters of Shiva. The sisters are Stiria (スティリア, Sutiria?), the dark-skinned elder sister with a light patch around her right eye, and younger, lighter-skinned Nix (ニクス, Nikusu?), who has a dark patch around one eye. Snow faces the sisters as bosses at Lake Bresha as a test to prove his strength to them.

While summoned, the sisters have separate ATB Gauges, but both are dismissed if their shared SP Gauge falls to zero. This is compensated by Stiria not being able to be directly targeted. In normal mode, Stiria focuses on the Medic and Ravager roles, healing Snow and dealing ice-elemental damage to enemies. Nix focuses on a Commando role, although she does have Blizzara. While Stiria cannot be targeted by enemies, she can still be damaged by Area of Effect attacks.

Shiva is the featured Primal and boss fight of patch 2.4, "Dreams of Ice." She was summoned by Ysayle in the image of an ancient saint who was beloved of Hraesvelgr, as part of her goal to end the millennium-long Dragonsong War.

Unlike the Primals summoned by beast-tribes, Ysayle uses her own body as a vessel for Shiva's spirit. The Warrior of Light is tasked to defeat Iceheart as Shiva in the trial The Akh Afah Amphitheatre as part of the main scenario, but she escapes using the power of the Echo. Ysayle's later actions set the stage for the beginning of Heavensward, where she and Shiva return as a major character in the expansion storyline.

Shiva the Glacian is an Astral in the world of Eos. She is the goddess of ice. After the player acquires her as a summon in Chapter 12, she is summoned randomly, and creates copies of herself when using her signature ability, Diamond Dust. Like Ramuh, she can be summoned almost anywhere. Shiva is one of the Six, and is said to be the most compassionate toward humanity.

Shiva is an obtainable SR monster. She is a Water-elemental monster whose type is Pierce, class is Djinn and her specialty is Tech. Her hero tech is Diamond Dust which smites all foes with freezing winds. Her leader bonus is Icicle Twirl which increases Water damage dealt by 100%. Her auto-effect is SOS Luck +50% which boosts Luck when below 30% HP.

The Summoner job class learns the ability to summon Shiva through the Snake Staff for 200 AP and costs 18 MP to cast. Unlike in her other appearances where she appears with a revealing outfit, this incarnation of Shiva is clad in armor with only the bottom of her face revealed. Although Shiva wields a sword and shield, she does not use them to attack. Instead, she holds the sword vertically above her head, and casts an ice spell.

Shiva has a Magic Power of 40, is stealable through the ability Steal: Ability, and is also susceptible to Return Magic and Absorb MP.

Shiva returns with her dark blue armor and sword, although she does not use her sword to fight, but instead raises it to send a flurry of ice shards at the selected foes. The Summoner job can learn the "spell" Shiva through the Serpent Staff for 300 AP, and Shiva costs 16 MP to cast with a range of 4.

She appears in the Glacial Cave near Rusalka in the Bard story in act 2 as a monster to defeat deep inside the cave. After she is gained as a summon for the summoner job class she attacks with Diamond Dust, encasing all enemies in ice. After her defeat, the ice-covered sections of the cave melt and the player can walk freely in without fear of sliding. She is blue and wears gold jewels.

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Shiva is a summon with three variants, Shiva α, Dark Shiva and Shiva Kai.

Shiva

Promotional artwork.*(Artwork (Rank 1).)

Shiva is a water-elemental summon whose special ability is Diamond Dust, which deals water-elemental damage to all enemies. Summoning Shiva costs 2 points from the Consumption Gauge. Morrow has a Rank 5 Shiva Phantom Stone equipped during the opening prologue.

During the "Ice Princess Shiva" quest, Shiva is fought as a boss multiple times. For defeating Shiva during the quest, the player is rewarded with her weapon the Shiva Bow.

Shiva's default artwork was provided by SQEX.

Depending on the Shiva summon's type and rank, the user is able to learn the following abilities:

The following type of Shiva allows the user to use Blizzard abilities.

Rank

Max level

Phantom Stone cost

Max HP

Max MP

Max Attack

Max Magic

Max Speed

Components needed

☆ 1

15

7

144

11

13

16

10

None

☆ 2

20

7

222

18

20

25

16

Rank Jewel IWater Opal x1

☆ 3

30

7

383

32

36

43

28

Rank Jewel IIWater Opal x2

☆ 4

40

10

550

46

51

62

40

Rank Jewel IIIWater Opal x3

☆ 5

50

10

718

59

67

80

52

?

Rank 3 Type (Shiva)

The following type of Shiva allows the user to use Blizzara abilities.

Rank

Max level

Phantom Stone cost

Max HP

Max MP

Max Attack

Max Magic

Max Speed

Components needed

☆ 3

30

10

397

33

37

45

29

None

☆ 4

40

10

570

47

53

64

42

Rank Jewel IIIWater Opal x3

☆ 5

50

10

744

61

69

83

54

?

Shiva α

Shiva α appears as a water-elemental summon. She can be obtained during the "Shiva's Ordeal" limited time event. Shiva α's stats are similar to that of the Blizzara-type Shiva Phantom Stones, however Shiva α provides a stronger magic attack stat bonus.

Like Shiva, when summoned into battle, her special ability is Diamond Dust when summoned into battle, which deals water-elemental damage to all enemies. Summoning Shiva costs 2 points from the Consumption Gauge.

Shiva α's artwork was provided by Brownies.

Depending on which variant of Shiva α the player obtains, the summon will allow the user to possibly learn the following abilities:

This variant of Shiva α can only be obtained through clearing dungeons during the "Shiva's Further Ordeal" Limited Event and starts on rank 3. It allows the user to use the Blizzard or Queen's Sigh abilities.

Rank

Max level

Phantom Stone cost

Max HP

Max MP

Max Attack

Max Magic

Max Speed

Components needed

☆ 3

30

10

?

?

?

?

?

None

☆ 4

40

10

504

48

40

81

42

?

☆ 5

50

10

658

62

52

105

54

?

Rank 4 Type (Shiva α)

This variant of Shiva α can only be obtained through the Phantom Stone probability up time and automatically starts at rank 4. It allows the user to use the Blizzara II or Blizzara III abilities.

Rank

Max level

Phantom Stone cost

Max HP

Max MP

Max Attack

Max Magic

Max Speed

Components needed

☆ 4

40

10

?

?

?

?

?

None

☆ 5

50

10

658

62

52

105

54

?

Dark Shiva

Dark Shiva is a water-elemental summon whose special ability is Diamond Ice, which deals water-elemental damage to all enemies three times. All versions of Dark Shiva are able to go up to rank 7 and using the summon costs 2 points from the Consumption Gauge.

Shiva appears as a summon. When summoned, Shiva uses Diamond Dust, "freezing" the opponent's Bravery Points, preventing them from increasing. Like many summons in Dissidia, Shiva can be summoned in two distinct ways: automatically, which summons her immediately when the user is attacked by an HP attack and her Final Fantasy VIII artwork appears, and manually, where her Final Fantasy IV artwork appears. Shiva's auto version can be obtained in the third stage of the Destiny Odyssey II storyline, and the manual version can be obtained in the same odyssey's second stage.

Shiva's Final Fantasy X incarnation is summonable by Yuna in-battle to perform either Heavenly Strike or Diamond Dust.

Shiva also returns as a summonstone, with the same function as in Dissidia. Her auto version is now found in Chapter Six: Indiscernible Truth of Scenario 012. The manual version can be purchased from certain Moogle Shops for 30 KP.

Shiva is one of the seven unlockable Summons, unlocked at random as the player's starting Summon. She summons large structures of ice and blasts frost traps to bind enemies in ice. Her signature attack is Diamond Dust, encircling the enemy party with orbs that solidify and transform into ice pillars. Her pre-summoning buff is Overflow, which restores the party's default Bravery value much faster. Post summoning, it becomes Algid Aura, which increases both the party's default Bravery value and recovery speed. When summoned, the PlayStation 4's controller's sync color changes to cobalt blue. In the game's story mode, Shiva is confronted by Cloud, Bartz and Shantotto.

As a boss, Shiva uses ice spells, such as a ring of ice around her, summoning large icicles from the ground underneath or homing orbs of ice as a ranged projectile. Her main HP attack is Boreal Plunge in which she dashes to an opponent and strikes the ground near them with her knee, causing ice to blast up around her. When her HP is reduced to 100,000, she splits into two copies to double team the party, though both are more vulnerable to being stunned. One copy will use Hailstorm as an HP attack, shooting forth a large blast of energy that travels the entire arena while the other retains the use of Boreal Plunge along with Diamond Dust, which behaves the same as it does in her summon incarnation.

The summon Shiva wields ice and snow to send all that live into eternal sleep. The Ice Queen's frosty breath instantaneously freezes enemies, before a graceful snap of her fingers shatters the ice forever...

—Shiva's CollectaCard

Shiva is a summon based on her appearance from Final Fantasy X. She uses her signature attack, Diamond Dust to assist the player during Battle Music Sequences.

Shiva is an Ice-elemental esper. From time to time, players may encounter Shiva in battle. Defeating Shiva will grant players the Shiva I summon stone, which allows Shiva to be summoned into battle. When summoned, Shiva uses the skill, Diamond Dust. Her summoned animation bears a strong resemblance to the summoned animation of Shiva in Final Fantasy V.

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Shiva is a boss and summon. She retains her appearance from Final Fantasy V as a summon, but when fought in the Final Fantasy VI realm as a boss, she and Ifrit use their sprites from Final Fantasy VI. The Shiva Sisters from Final Fantasy XIII, Nix and Stiria, also appear as bosses, with only Nix targetable.

As a summon, Shiva is a rank 3 ability requiring Ice Orbs and Summon Orbs to create or hone. Rydia's Ice Whip (IV) also carries her as the Unique Soul Break Summon Eidolon II.

Many of Snow's Soul Breaks are based on abilities used in tandem with the Shiva Sisters in their Gestalt mode. Diamond Dust, for instance, is a Super Soul Break that envelops the enemy field in ice as Snow smashes the field four times, then raises his party's Defense.

Shiva, along with Ifrit and Ramuh, is a powerful mirage in the world Grymoire that previously knew Lann and Reynn. Her ability is Diamond Dust.

In addition, a new type of Shiva based on the Shiva Sisters from Final Fantasy XIII, called Ixion, appears accompanying Snow.

Who's Who

Shiva

CV: Adrienne Wilkinson / Takako Honda

Notes: One of the Pleiad / Nether Nebula guardian / Queen of ice / One eye not like the other / Doesn't keep her cool as well as you'd think

A Series Regular

Shiva has been diamond-dusting ever since the summoning system made its debut. And like Ifrit and Ramuh, she's a core member of the FF lineup who has shown up in almost every FINAL FANTASY since.

Shiva's gone through a lot of changes over the years. She's turned up as a motorcycle and a kind of super ice skater, had a family and not had a family... Icy as she is, she's never let her image freeze up.

Not on Bridge Duty

As you may have figured out, the shiva that specializes in making bridges is the one that hangs with Snow. That's not to say this Shiva is incapable of making a bridge—and, in fact, Sherlotta managed to taunt her into it—but she certainly isn't about to go out of her way to do any extra work.

Manhandler

Shiva tried to march right on home once she saw that Sherlotta and Refia weren't accompanied by a cadre of hunky guys—but what exactly would she have done if there were men present? Freeze 'em up and use 'em to decorate her room? If you think about it, Shiva's been cooling her heels in the Nether Nebula for a while now... Does she have an icebox somewhere filled with frozen beefcake?

Not anymore. Ramuh made her clean up her man-freezer years ago; Shiva had to watch as Ifrit thawed her entire collection. Still, if given the chance, she'd love to start again...

The Nether Nebula: Part 2

In places where the barrier between worlds is thin, an esper with the right knowledge doesn't need a summoner, because they can use the magic within any suitable human being as a conduit. In a word, they can summon themselves.

However, a number of unlikely conditions need to first be met: the barrier must be thin enough, the esper must be clever enough, and a powerful enough human conduit must wander within reach. Naturally, this makes such crossings a very rare occurrence.

First World of Origin

FINAL FANTASY III

Shiva-Ixion

Notes: A type of shiva / Travels with Snow

Shiva on Wheels

"Ixion" is her name, and "shiva" is her tribe. You can call her "The Icy Cycle" or "Icycle" for short if you want...but don't expect her to like it.

On a less silly note, Shiva-Ixion has the ability to enter gestalt mode (aka motorcycle mode) of her own free will. Pretty handy!

Not a Familiar

Shiva-Ixion's bond with Snow is a bit different from that of a familiar and a summoner. A while back, in a certain town, they came to each other's rescue and have stuck together since. In that sense, their relationship is similar to Faris and Syldra's.

Shiva-Ixion is an incredibly rare type of shiva—the only of her kind in Grymoire. She's also one of the few Mirages around that the twins won't be able to imprism. For now, no one gets to hang out with her but Snow.

First World of Origin:

FINAL FANTASY XIII

Shivalry

CV: JP Karliak / Mamoru Miyano

Notes: Self-proclaimed "cool face of justice" / Hopelessly cheesy / Only hears what he wants to

Shiva's Biggest Headache

Shivalry believes, without an iota of doubt, that he is the very epitome of righteousness, and that it is his burden—nay, his duty!—to instill the proper values in all who stray off the ethical path.

There are few things more irritating than having Shivalry get on your case. He's as stubborn as an unfed chocobo and simply refuses to be reasoned with. At least, that's what Shiva will tell you.

Also, in case you're wondering: just as there are relatively few ifrit females, there are relatively few shiva males.

Not Technically a Villain

Why did Shivalry declare with such certainty that Shiva-Ixion was evil? Chalk it up to experience. While traveling from world to world and righting wrongs (whether wrong or right), Shivalry has come up against the Exnine Knights and the Cogna enough times to know they're bad news.

So when he saw that Shiva-Ixion had a little machine in her, he decided it was his sacred duty as Chief of the Shiva Justice Police to stop her before she could shame their tribe. Of course, this was all a big misunderstanding.

So is he a villain? No. Is he a good guy? Also probably no. Let's not forget that to get into Grymoire in the first place, he had to bust his way through an innocent human. Whatever you want to call that kind of stunt, justice it just isn't.

First World of Origin:

WORLD OF FINAL FANTASY

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Shiva appears as ability cards and her artwork is illustrated by agnidevi. Her Final Fantasy VII incarnation appears as ability cards and her artwork is illustrated by Dopaprime. Her Final Fantasy X incarnation also appears as ability cards and as an enemy summoned by Meia that can be fought during multiplayer mode.

Shiva's ability card requires x6 Water Element to be used and casts Blizzaga, which deals Water-elemental damage to all enemies. Her card's auto-ability is Magic Up.

Shiva is represented by many Ice-elemental summon cards: depicting her in normal and in Gestalt Mode from Final Fantasy XIII; one depicting her Final Fantasy Tactics art; two depicting her Final Fantasy Type-0 art; one featuring her Final Fantasy XI appearance; one depicting her Yoshitaka Amano art from Final Fantasy III; and one of Shiva from Theatrhythm Final Fantasy.

While not making a physical appearance in the series, Shiva's trademark attack, Diamond Dust, makes several appearances in this series. In Kingdom Hearts Final Mix, an accessory called the Shiva Belt appears. It reduces ice damage by 40% and adds 2 to MP. An enemy Gummi Ship as well as an obtainable blueprint called Shiva appears on various gummi ship routes.

[view·edit·purge]Shiva (also spelled Śiva) is a Hindu god. The Hindu Shiva once saved the world by consuming poison, giving him blue skin around the area of the neck and throat. Shiva is a male god, but can merge with his consort Parvati to become Ardhanari, an androgynous Hindu god of duality. Shiva is the god of destruction along with Vishnu, who is the god of preservation, and Brahma, the god of creation. Together they are the three principle deities of the Trimurti (Hindu Triad). It is believed he periodically destroys the world, then recreates it.

Shiva has different human forms, males and females. When he was in his avatar form, he spent most of his times in the Himalayan snow mountain. Shiva in the Final Fantasy series is likely inspired by one of his female avatars.
There is a possibility the name was simply the Japanese way of pronouncing the word "shiver", given her icy nature. Another possibility is the reference to the Slavic goddess Živa, the goddess of love and fertility.